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It's an important fact of life, war. -- Jeff Goldblum
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. -- Anthony Lewis
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf. -- Ernie Els
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. -- Eric Alterman
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. -- Eoin Colfer
The principal fact of life is the free mind. -- Joyce Cary
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. -- Norman Cousins
Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery. -- Mason Cooley
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. -- Joanne Harris
The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't. -- The Wombat
Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life -- D. Aswini
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life! -- Cannonball Adderley
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life. -- Rita Mae Brown
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. -- Kofi Annan
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility -- Kofi Annan
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. -- Nikki Giovanni
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. -- Raghu Rai
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. -- Lewis Thomas
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. -- Saul Alinsky
Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you. -- K.J. Parker
A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life. -- C. R. Smith
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. -- Paul Pearsall
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. -- Billy Graham
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons. -- Chris Matthews
If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing. -- Gore Vidal
By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success. -- Susan Jeffers
It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all. -- Brian Austin Green
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them. -- Harvey Mackay
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. -- Lynda Obst
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. -- Lynda Obst
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. -- Fred Rogers
Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane. -- Christine Sneed
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle. -- Griffith Edwards
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you. -- Sonu Nigam
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. -- Arabella Weir
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life. -- Anita Baker
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. -- Norman Cousins
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. -- Jose Saramago
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. -- John Gierach
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves. -- George Voinovich
It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. -- Stephanie Ellis
Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns. -- Kent Haruf
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly. -- Harry Browne
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully. -- Billy Graham
Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks. -- Ronald Reagan
You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life. -- Angela Ahrendts
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. -- Jerry Saltz
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. -- Lech Walesa
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. -- Robert Redford
One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. -- John Pomfret
Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it. -- Joan Collins
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. -- E. L. Doctorow
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. -- David Chalmers
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. -- David Chalmers
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life. -- Michael Jensen
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. -- Jon Meacham
Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us. -- Jennifer James
Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.' -- Yochai Benkler
Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him. -- Lora Leigh
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. -- Ben Shapiro
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice. -- Darell Hammond
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments. -- Sylvia Earle
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics. -- Laura Bush
It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life. -- Callum Blue
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility. -- Robert M. Gates
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. -- bell hooks
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point. -- Pico Iyer
At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that. -- David Blunkett
I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors. -- Rod Serling
It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions. -- Ross Garnaut
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. -- James Buchan
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life. -- Meg Rosoff
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. -- Saul Alinsky
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment. -- Billy Graham
A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.' -- Sophia Amoruso
It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life. -- Laurie Colwin
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me. -- Gabriel Byrne
Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice. -- Tana French
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear. -- Charles Stanley
Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
Globalization is a fact of economic life. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Envy is the central fact of American life. -- Gore Vidal
The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. -- Aleister Crowley
The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -- Arnold H. Glasow
It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping. -- Cecil Castellucci
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. -- Vaclav Havel
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. -- Laurie Colwin
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised. -- Martin Freeman
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. -- Jessica Savitch
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. -- Walter Benjamin
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. -- Rick Moody
I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life. -- Marco Rubio
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. -- Wilhelm Wundt
I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation. -- Johnnie Cochran
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Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. -- Ori Hofmekler
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you. -- Bill Moyers
Globalization is a fact of economic life -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
This is the great fact: strength is life. -- Swami Vivekananda
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. -- Aidan Chambers
The fact of the matter is most women are pro life. -- Reince Priebus
Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact. -- Stephan Jenkins
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars. -- Enzo Ferrari
The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose. -- Steve Grand
psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life. -- Jean Baker Miller
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. -- Ashley Montagu
That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies. -- Stacey Kade
EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true. -- Rhonda Byrne
The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one. -- Salman Rushdie
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. -- Imran Khan

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